Willow

The Championship/Football Manager series of games came out and therefore kids got sucked in and never came back...

no-one knows?

I've been wondering, how is this phrase allowed to justisfy so many dodgy quotes you see in so many football headlines/articles/etc.. Surely you could make anything up and just put 'A club insider said today' or 'A source close to the individual' before it and that makes it ok to print. Isn't there some kind of stricter law that governs quotes and their usage? Obviously there will be but it seems writing so-called 'articles', usually on football transfers, means you can bend them however you like. For example, this is taken from this Guardian article today: http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2240343,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=5 A Newcastle source last night denied that Redknapp had ever been offered the post. "Harry Redknapp was never the only name in the frame," he said. "There is a presumption that he was first choice but there is a difference between a job interview and a job offer. We've spoken to more than one person and will be speaking to more people this week." The source added the club were "not narrowing it down to people from these shores". Cheers if you can clear it up for me as I've never been sure about how it works..

Blackburn forum opinions on the situation: http://www.brfcs.co.uk/mb/index.php?showtopic=18034

Yup, all tomorrows papers run the Hughes story http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/premier-league/article3336162.ece http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/football.html?in_article_id=508051&in_page_id=1779&ct=5 http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2240343,00.html http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/sport/football/2008/01/13/hughes-tops-toon-list-98487-20283981/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1YourView&xml=/sport/2008/01/14/sfnfro114.xml

Same, haha. I'm checking footy sites daily for any news at the mo and its wearing me down. Whomever is chosen is going to get backed by Mike but it looks as if there'll be no new players in this window so I guess its summer spending only.

Yup, well said John!

people wanting sbr back haway man, jesus christ

Good call

didn't david copperfield just get arrested for rape or something..........thats EXACTLY who we need!

thats whats funny about it, we know nothing about this guy whos been at this club for god knows how many years with numberous managers and we still have no clue what he does obviously hes not exactly a good luck charm...

I agree with indi about shearer or keegan too, however, I'd be livid if we even thought about approaching Barney... http://www.richkern.com/vb/Articles/Lions/barney.jpg

True dat, you noticed hes always lurked in the shadows on a massive wage with whichever manager we've had. He also said that the club must be 'cursed'............hes actually the curse, so I basically blame him for everything thats wrong with nufc today...

Kaboom http://www.pa.msu.edu/~yang/NuclearBomb.jpg westwood style

Its truly incredible the amount of negative comments being written here. Laughable bunch you lot are. You're all like "Well get some players in then!" - do you think he's sitting on his fucking arse? do you think Morts pissing about on Minesweeper or something? you lot assume too much. Impatient buggers, they're considering all candidates for the job right now and trying to get things right. Its pretty rare you get an owner making a statement of intent like that and you're all picking at it like parasites, see the big picture like hes doing. Yes we've been burnt in the past and we all know how that feels but nows the time to have a bit of spirit about us in these dark times, we need some leading so just wait for the new manager and shut the fuck up for now. You don't what you've got til its gone and the amount of clubs around that would kill for an owner like ours, jesus. Can't wait til he eventually shuts you all up and you're thankful for once.

Yes! This is the exact thing that we needed to hear in this hour of need. I have butterflies in my stomach, jesus christ, mike is for real and now I have the biggest smile on my face! C'MON!

I just think Chris and Mike will have to pull some serious rabbits out of their hats over the coming week to keep the fans from getting their pitchforks out, haha Jose + £100m to blow would do nicely ta

most people are on about the performance and how rubbish we really are Most teams look shite against manure, they're up top for good reason. People need a bit of a slap thinking we'd get anything at old trafford, we haven't for 30 years

Watched his lips, he said "Ah fuck it, lets just GET JOSE IN NOW!!!"

can't believe you guys are angry, were you expecting a big win or something? I said 3-0 before the match as I knew we'd be raped like headless chickens. Just forget this one and wait for the next game (and manager)

old news matey

For me it has to be Robbie Elliot

Got none, trust me, I've been trying hard to get some too. You know when you're in the groove of things, you want something a bit special to take you all the way.......oh well *pulls trousers back up*

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/kopdan/krissmessage.jpg

Seems likes rehashed quotes to me, posted at midday too...